The mouth waters just thinking of the elective courses for those who major in fat studies:

How to bake the best chocolate chip cookies.Big, fat juicy steaks done right.The best french fries- McDonald's or your local cheesesteak shop? Pork - the white meat. You can live without broccoli. Eat bacon & eggs for breakfast, lunch & dinner.Fat - everybody dies of something so what's the big deal about a few extra lbs?

It's about time. I have been looking to hire a few dozen people with this specialty and have come up empty as it were. I would prefer if they had a dual major in Womens Studies but as long as they can pronounce hegemony I will let it go. We are building a big new kitchen so that should be a plus, a magnet hopefully.

teaches a course on weight and society at George Washington University

Oh god, this is my alma mater! Although we did have these one off classes called "700 series" that were not part of the core curriculum in any way and were basically experimental classes about random stuff, so maybe this is one of those.

The is a whole politics of weight thing going around. Most people just joke about it which is fine. We normally don't react until our ox gets gored. But the use of weight issuses to drive things like taxation (soda taxes) medical care (Weight panels that Michele Obama wants to institute) and even banning TV actors because they are too fat (see Mike and Molly controversy with that ignorant twat Maura Kelly of Marie Claire).

Since an abosolute majority of Americans would be classified as "overweight" maybe we should look at it.

I don't think there should be a college course though. I think most college courses are a waste of time. That's why professors...no all teachers should be replaced with robots.